Sunday, November 11, 2007

File Under "Accomplished" - A Photo Story

(Incidentally, this little photo story will give a fair tour of the mess that is my living room. I only mocked my parents' house in the past because I could completely relate to it.)

My writing desk was my dining table for years. Then we got a new one, but instead of throwing this table out, I moved it into the living room to use as my writing table. Initially, this was very good. Then my writing table became my dumping table. (FYI - My friend Dianne painted that portrait of the CUSS logo for me. Isn't she awesome?) Not much writing is done at my writing desk as a result. After months of writing at the fancy new dining room table, thinking if I could just put my files somewhere, I could use the writing table as a table instead of storage unit, it occurred to me that I could buy a filing cabinet. Two weeks later, I ordered one from Staples.

It arrived yesterday in a tidy box. I committed to building the filing cabinet on Friday morning. Here I am hard at work in the middle of my living room. Husband was working from home, and he was so amused he decided to take a picture. (Note the hideous purple leather chairs that he insisted on buying from Craig's List. The blue sofa came from a thrift store. Our temporary second rabbit, Jacques, chewed a whole on the corner of the puffy top which is covered by Husband's green blanket that he got for college in 1994. At the front of the room, behind the gate, is Tycho the Giant Rabbit's apartment.)

About an hour and one minorly major fuck up (I forgot to put in the bottom on one of the drawers before I attached all the sides - oops), the file cabinet stands complete. What a jolly laugh I shall have if it is not large enough.

4 comments:

  1. first, don't mock the comfy leather chairs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they rock! second, i always screw at least one thing up when I put things together. the first set of dressers brian and i got from ikea(which have long ago fallen apart) had a part on it inside out thanks to yours truly! i was unable to take it apart to rectify the situation, so it stared at me daily! enjoy your new file cabinet.

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  2. For some reason looking at the pictures the title of the movie "Dairy of a Mad Housewife" pops comes to mind (:))

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  3. I am amazed at your furniture-putting together prowess. I would have broken it out of frustration, I am sure.

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  4. You saw my apartment all clean and shiny. YOu'll never see it like that again.
    :)

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